Re: ``It Is My Job To Help You Do Yours''
From: Bobby D. Bryant (bdbryant_at_mail.utexas.edu)
Date: 09/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:44:15 -0600
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:25:14 +0000, Ron Hardin wrote:
> Kerry addressing the National Guard convention
>
> I will be a President who goes into the Oval Office every morning
> knowing that it is my job to help you do yours.
>
> http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=36410
>
> Some rule leaves ``yours'' having a hard time connecting with ``job.''
>
> It seems to be found in the last place you look, ie.
>
> My job is to help you do yours.
>
> seems to have the same trouble, except perhaps the fruitless search
> is shorter.
>
> My job is helping you do yours.
>
> slightly better? I don't know.
>
> Helping you do your job is mine.
>
> To help you do your job is mine.
>
> None of them are very good. Not like
>
> If you can't find the book, you can have mine.
>
> Perhaps it just wants stuff at the same level.
The structure may be optimized for rhetorical properties rather than
grammatical properties.
-- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas
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